Puerto Rico (Pando)

Puerto Rico is a country town in the department of Pando in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia. The city was in 1938 the first capital of the department of Pando.

Location in near space

Puerto Rico is the seat of the administration of the province Manuripi and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Puerto Rico and is located in the canton of Victoria at an altitude of 175 m. In Puerto Rico itself Río Río Tahuamanu Manuripi and unite the Río Orthon, which flows 410 km below the confluence of the Río Beni.

Geography

Puerto Rico is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the river system of the Amazon, for much of the region are still covered with tropical rain forest, the climate of the region is humid rainy climate of the tropics.

The mean annual temperature of the region is 26.5 ° C (see climate chart Puerto Rico / Bolivia), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 25 ° C in June and July and about 27 ° C from September to January. The annual precipitation is 1,800 mm, the precipitation maximum values ​​are in excess of 200 mm from December to March and only the short dry season from June to August month has rainfall of 30 mm.

Traffic network

Puerto Rico lies at a distance of 169 kilometers of road east of Cobija, the capital of the department, on an important river crossing.

From Cobija from the 370 km long highway Ruta 13 runs eastwards through Porvenir to Puerto Rico, where it crosses the Río Orthon, and then on to El Triangulo (El Choro ). In El Choro Ruta 13 strikes the Ruta 8, which runs from Guayaramerin and Riberalta in the north to Reyes, Rurrenabaque and Yucumo in the central Bolivian lowlands.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to about five times: